Mac photographers make lasting impression in ATPI Fall Contest
In a competition that elicited 4,700 entries from 100 schools across the nation, world, McCallum image makers capture a dozen awards
McCallum photojournalists earned 12 awards in the 2022 Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest.
The ATPI fall contest elicits stiff competition, more than 4,700 entries in the 28 award categories from 100 schools. The entries came not only from student photographers in Texas but also from California, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon and Guam.
Junior Gergő Major earned four of the McCallum awards, two for individual images and two for five-image portfolios.
All of the winners as well as their honored images are included below as this week’s Tuesday Top 10 photo essay. Technically, it’s two top 10s because there were a total of 20 images that were selected as winners, 10 individual images and two five-image portfolios.
Winner’s Gallery
JoJo Barnard, “A sweet surprise”
second place, student life
beginner
Julia Copas, “Point taken”
first place, sports reaction
beginner
Jolie Gabriel, “Raider repellent”
third place, sports action
beginner
Lillian Gray, “Excedrin headlock”
second place, sports action
beginner
Chloe Lewcock, “A blur”
first honorable mention, time exposure
beginner
Gergő Major, “One in a million”
first place, open
advanced
Gergő Major, “Moments in black and white”
third place, portfolio
advanced
Gergő Major, “Portraits in living color”
honorable mention, portfolio
advanced
Gergő Major, “To the victors”
honorable mention, sports reaction
advanced
Charlie Partheymuller, “Pink Week money shot”
honorable mention, student life
advanced
Lexi Ramos, “Knights 51, Raptors 32”
honorable mention, sports action
beginner
Clara Williams, “Underwater sunshine”
![A PRIDE-FUL WEEK OF CELEBRATION:
As part of AISDs week-long celebration of PRIDE, students of the McCallum Spectrum Club worked to create a week full of activities, prizes and helping hands to support the schools LGBTQ+ community. The club is widely available for anyone to join, and specializes in creating a safe space for students to share and give advice. While Pride month itself isn’t until June, AISD designates one week in March to celebrate and commemorate the importance of this part of the student body.
As part of the week of festivities, the club held a booth in the front hall handing out pride stickers, pins and merch to passers by. For junior Zane Joly, the booth idea was brought up as a way for students to engage with one another, and connect with the community.
“I call out to people in the halls, ‘hey, do you want stickers?’” Joly said. “We just give out free pride stickers and sometimes other free pride merch to the students of Macallum because everybody likes pride stickers.”
While the week itself is packed with a variety of different activities, the overall goal is to bring students closer together and create a safer environment for self expression at McCallum.
“The idea for the student panel largely came from the black [history] student panel that is done during Black History Month,” Joly said. “And the idea for giving out free stuff was developed at Spectrum last year.”
Joly is not only a member of the Spectrum club, but also holds a leadership position giving them a more hands-on role with the projects and Pride Week activities.
“McCallum has a very high queer population,” Joly said. “I think Its nice that we get a chance to celebrate Pride because Pride Month is during the summer, and I think its just a nice thing for the community and getting to just celebrate it.”
While the merch table at lunch was only a small part of the numerous parts of McCallum’s Pride week, for Joly this small impact made all the difference.
“The purpose of Pride is to make people not feel alone and to make them feel safe,” Joly said. “The goal is [to make people] happy about a part of themselves that theyre often conditioned to not feel good about.”
Caption by Chloe Lewcock. Photo by Shila Gill.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/53597258192_6e7168d8ae_o-1-600x338.jpg)
![NOTHINGS BETTER THAN FUNNELCAKES: In the small blacktop by the flower garden, food trucks, candy corn stalls and funnel cake stands are set up with picnic table for a break when people get hungry. Many visitors come here to meet up with friends and explore the other areas as well, but it furthermore serves as a perfect place for conversation. “I think it [the gathering space] makes the school feel more lively,” Dube says.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gullet-Carnival-Photo-Essay-1-1-600x338.jpg)
